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Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

by Meaghan Downey | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics

For 211 years, only one president had been impeached. But three of the last five presidents have been impeached or faced impeachment inquiries, and just this month a Cabinet secretary was impeached for the first time since 1876. While a powerful constitutional weapon...
Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang and Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...
Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

by Juliann Ventura | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert...
Haley looks ahead to Michigan after South Carolina primary on Saturday

Haley looks ahead to Michigan after South Carolina primary on Saturday

by Yiqing Wang | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics

NEWBERRY, South Carolina – Despite losses in early primaries and low poll numbers in her home state, Nikki Haley projected confidence and determination during her “Beast of the Southeast” bus tour in South Carolina, holding four rallies in two days...
Nearly three-quarters of South Carolina election officials have quit

Nearly three-quarters of South Carolina election officials have quit

by Nicole Norman | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Politics

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Here in South Carolina, the spread of distrust in the integrity of voting has caused election administrators to quit at high rates. According to Issac Cramer, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Elections, 70 percent of top election...
Outdated regulations stall cutting-edge nuclear plants

Outdated regulations stall cutting-edge nuclear plants

by Esther Frances | Feb 22, 2024 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON – Congress approved billions of dollars in recent years to support new nuclear energy technology. Despite this, advanced reactor projects have yet to break ground in the United States, delaying the fight against climate change, experts said. One big reason...
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